By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/14/2017 Ribbon, the company created last month from a merger between Sonus and Genband, has named Fritz Hobbs as its new president and CEO following the resignation of Ray ...

By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 11/17/2017 Former AT&T Mobility CEO Glenn Lurie didn't stay retired very long! He has signed on as the new CEO for messaging company Synchronoss, replacing current CEO Stephen ...

By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/3/2017 The names Sonus and Genband have been on the communications networking and services scene for years (remember the buzz around softswitches and session border ...

By Ian Maclean, CMO, Metaswitch, 10/20/2017 It's time for some fresh thinking about voice services. Once the dominant source of revenue for mobile operators, voice calls are now a rare form of communication ...

By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 9/20/2017 India's telecom regulator has slashed the fees that operators charge one another for terminating calls in a move that bodes ill for the country's biggest operators, ...

By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/8/2017 The founder of a leading enterprise messaging and chatbot company says telecom service providers still have an opportunity to grab some of the value in the messaging ...

By Gagandeep Kaur, Contributing Editor, 8/1/2017 Led by Reliance Jio, India's service providers are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) technology, which allows phone calls to be made ...

By Iain Morris, News Editor, 7/12/2017 The complexities of management and orchestration (MANO) have seen many telco executives figuratively tearing out their hair in frustration as they try to virtualize ...

By Iain Morris, News Editor, 7/5/2017 When Deutsche Telekom fired the starting gun on its pan-European network project in early 2015, the task ahead of the German incumbent looked daunting. (See Deutsche ...

By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 3/14/2017 TEOCO Founder and CEO Atul Jain talks to Light Reading Founder and CEO Steve Saunders about the challenges around cost control and service monetization in the mobile and IoT sectors.

By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 3/7/2017 At MWC 2017, Reliance Jio's President of Network, Global Strategy and Service Development, Mathew Oommen, tells Light Reading CEO and founder Steve Saunders how ruthless execution of its plans helped the Indian greenfield 4G operator attract more than 100 million subscribers in its first 170 days of commercial operation.

A CSP's digital transformation involves so much more than technology. Crucial – and often most challenging – is the cultural transformation that goes along with it. As Sigma's Chief Technology Officer, Catherine Michel has extensive experience with technology as she leads the company's entire product portfolio and strategy. But she's also no stranger to merging technology and culture, having taken a company — Tribold — from inception to acquisition (by Sigma in 2013), and she continues to advise service providers on how to drive their own transformations. This impressive female leader and vocal advocate for other women in the industry will join Women in Comms for a live radio show to discuss all things digital transformation, including the cultural transformation that goes along with it.